Canada’s Christopher Morales Williams units a world indoor document within the 400 meters on the SEC Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Georgia sophomore clocked a flying time of 44.49 seconds, breaking the earlier mark of 44.57 set by American Kieron Clement on the identical monitor in 2005.
Morales Williams gained nearly a second from his earlier greatest time set earlier within the month.
The Canadian native of Vaughan, simply north of Toronto, missed two years of highschool monitor when colleges have been closed through the pandemic. During that point he ran solo long-distance runs of as much as 7.5 miles a day for coaching.
Morales Williams selected Georgia primarily due to coach Caryl Smith Gilbert, who coached fellow Canadian runner and Olympic champion Andre de Grasse at USC.
His document is topic to World Athletics’s ratification course of.
The Arkansas males’s and ladies’s groups received the SEC title for the fifth consecutive yr.
Reuters contributed to this report.
